abeam

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From a- (“in the direction of”) +‎ beam (“keel”).

Adverb

abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)

  1. (nautical, aircraft) On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel [1] or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.[2] [3]
  2. (nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. [3]
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Adjective

abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)

  1. (nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. [3]
    The island was directly abeam of us.
    • 1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Nostromo‎, New York: Harper, page 311:
      The sound shifted its place markedly, but without coming nearer. It even grew a little more distant right abeam of the lighter, and then ceased again.
    • 2005, William Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland‎, →ISBN, page 178:
      The attack on the abeam ship, Louisville, killed Commander Cruiser Division Four […]

Preposition

abeam

  1. (nautical) Alongside. [3]
    She came abeam the crippled ship.

Etymology 2

From a- +‎ beam (“to emit beams of light”).

Adjective

abeam (not comparable)

  1. Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
    • 1876, William Davidson, Sermons on the Parables, Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, Sermon 1, p. 41,
      the hearts of the saints be all attention and their faces all abeam for the consolation;
    • 1906, Miriam Michelson, chapter 9, in A Yellow Journalist,‎, New York: D. Appleton, page 199:
      […] the waiters fly about abeam with good will and on excellent terms with those they serve […]
    • 1970, Doreen Tovey, chapter 6, in The New Boy‎, Chicago: Summersdale, published 2006, page 55:
      […] since he refused to be intimidated, stage two of their introduction consisted of Sheba sitting round in attitudes of beleaguered desperation while Seeley, his face abeam with adulation, sat determinedly beside her.
    • 2011, Christopher Buckley, “Christopher Hitchens”, in But Enough About You: Essays‎, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 227:
      When we met for another lunch […] he was all abeam with pride as he handed me a newly minted paperback reissue of Wodehouse […]

References

  1. ^ FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook
  2. ^ JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeam”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

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Verb

abeam

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of abeō
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